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Facebook documents: The network has allowed human trafficking publications for slavery
The wave of revelations from the documents leaked from Facebook does not subside: CNN reports that Facebook has not prevented trafficking in human beings, especially women who were sold into slavery in households, through coercion and violence, a problem that has been going on for more than two years.
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Niv Lillian
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 09:25 Updated: 09:39
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Following the testimony of Frances Hagen to Congress and the testimony she gave to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seventeen media outlets in the United States continue to dismantle the mountain of documents dubbed "Facebook documents" and draw shocking revelations about the world's largest social network. Today (Monday) CNN, which is part of the media investigating the documents, reveals several issues and in particular - Facebook has allowed human trafficking publications.
The issue of human trafficking was first exposed in 2019, by the BBC. These are human trafficking ads published in English and other languages (including Arabic), which offer facts to the household - but those "facts" were seduced or recruited for forced labor, violence, rape, food deprivation and passport taking.
The BBC's original exposure prompted Apple to demand that Facebook handle the matter, threatening to remove all of the company's apps from its app store.
Facebook did the bare minimum required of them, just to appease Apple's rage, and avoid what the internal documents defined as "possible serious consequences" for the company's business.
Now the documents reveal that Facebook has been aware of the matter and has been dealing with this issue since 2018, and not with much success.
Apple's threat, cited last month as part of the Wall Street Journal's exposures, has also flooded the problem of filtering content in non-English-speaking countries.
A statement from Hagen's lawyers told the Securities and Exchange Commission: "Investors will probably want to know the truth that Facebook has almost lost access to Apple's app store because of the failure to block human trafficking in its products."
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An internal report from the company from that year states that "gaps still exist in the discovery of recruiting, buying and selling entities," what the documents called "less domestic." Facebook had identified and removed under the sword Apple put on their necks. Facebook removed the accounts Instagram after the request CNN reaction, and Andy Stone, a spokesman for the company, admitted that they violate the terms of use.
"We forbid the exploitation of human beings in any case ... We are fighting "Human trafficking has been on our platform for years, and our goal is to prevent anyone who wants to exploit others from getting asylum on our platform," Stone said.
Stone also referred to CNN for a document addressed to the UN, regarding their efforts to prevent human trafficking, in which it was argued that this is an issue that "is hardly reported to us by users." Stone added: "To address these challenges, we have developed technology that Active to locate and act in relation to the content of domestic slavery ... With its help, we have been able to locate and remove more than 4,000 offensive publications in Arabic and English since January 2020. "
Active Instagram accounts have been identified, offering home workers for sale (Photo: ShutterStock)
An internal Facebook study published in 2019 identified more than 100 fake accounts used by the human trafficking network to recruit female victims from different countries (at least 20 were identified), and used WhatsApp Messenger, also owned by Facebook, to coordinate their transfer. To Dubai, where they were forced to work in "massage clubs," the study says.
The investigation also identified a $ 152,000 investment in crime-related Facebook advertising, including focusing on men in Dubai as the target audience of the advertising. Additional Facebook studies, which apparently did not see light outside its boundaries, from 2020 and 2021, confirm the findings of the original study.
Despite Facebook's efforts, it is apparent that content related to domestic slavery is still available and active on Instagram.
CNN has located a large number of accounts offering lesser homes for sale, including an account that includes photos and descriptions of women, including age, height, weight, contract duration and other personal information.
Facebook again, removed these accounts following CNN's request.
Now Facebook, according to Stone, is focusing on preventing searches of related concepts, but the results in the field are still worrying.
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